Hinge.



, ,PATENTED MAR.22, 1904,' T.'T. BORING & IE; FRITGHBY.

, HINGE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 1903.

NO MODEL;

I i l 1 States, residing at Huntingdon, in thecounty UNITED STATES Patented March 22, 1904.

PATENT OFF CE.

THOMAS T. BORING AND FRANK FRITOHEY, I OF HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA.

HINGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,211, dated March 22, 1904.

Application filed. May 28, 1903.

To all whomv it may concern.-

Be it known that we, THOMAS T. BORING and FRANK FRITCHEY, citizens of the United of Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Hinge, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Our invention relates to hinges, and has for its objects to produce a simple inexpensive device of this character by the use of which a door may be readily and evenly hung and brought to the proper position and level relative to the jamb without the use of squares, gages, or similar tools.

To these ends the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view illustrating the improved hinge applied for use. Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating in detail the component parts of a hinge. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the hinge, door, and frame.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the primary or jamb-engaging leaf, provided with a hollow knuckle 2, which seats between and in register with coincident knuckles 3 and 4, carried by the secondary or door-engaging leaf 5, said knuckles conjointly forming the pintle-barrel which receives the pintle 6 for pivotally connecting the hinge-leaves. It is here to be particularly noted that the primary leaf 1 is of the type known as butt-hinges, while the leaf 5 is of the class known as leaf or strap hinges, whereby said leaveswill normally extend at right angles one to the other for the purpose which will presently appear. 1

The leaf 1 has formed or otherwise provided upon its normally inner 0r jainb-engaging face a gage-stop 7, preferably in the form of a projecting rib or shoulder extending entirely across the leaf longitudinally and designed in practice to bear-upon the outer edge of the leaf-receiving socket formed in the j amb 8, the bearing-face of said stop being in a Serial No. 159,173. (No model.)

plane coincident with the inner or bearing face of leaf 5, which in practice lies upon the outer face of the door 9, as seen more clearly in Fig. 3.

The knuckles 3 and 4 are offset from and disposed in a plane at right angles to the outer face of leaf 5, whereby the inner end of the 'right-angular position relative to leaf 5.

In practice when it is desired to hang a door with our improved hinge it is simply necessary to form in the jamb 8 the sockets for the reception of the primary leaves 1, it being understood, of course, that at least two of the hinges will be employed and that each leaf 1 may be employed as a gage in the formation of its socket. After the leaves 1 have been secured in proper position on the jamb the door is seated in the doorway and the leaves 5 folded downward upon and secured to the outer face of the latter, whereby owing to the rib or stop 7 bearing upon the outer edge of the jamb and 1 the inner face of the leaf 5 being in alinement with the bearing edge of 'said stop the door will necessarily be brought to the proper position and level relative to the outer edge of the jamb, and this without the employment 0 squares or gages.

From the foregoing it is apparent that we produce a simple inexpensive device which is admirably adapted for the attainment of the ends in view; but it is to be understood that minor changes in the details of construction herein set forth may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is- I A hinge comprising a primary leaf adapted for attachment to a door-jamb and a secondary leaf adapted for attachment to the door, said leaves being pivotally connected and normally extending at right angles one to the other, and a gage-stop provided upon the inner face of the primary leaf to bear upon the outer edge our own We have hereto affixed our signatures of a leaf-receiving socket formed 1n the amb, 1n the presence of tWo Witnesses.

THOMAS T. BORING.

the bearing-face of the stop being in a plane coincident With the plane of the inner face of FRANK FRITCHEY. 5 the secondary leaf when the parts are in nor- Witnesses:

L. H. BEERS,

Ina] closed position.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as T. W. MYTON. 

